The Film­ga­lerie 451 pro­duces, pub­lishes and de­liv­ers – not only their own – films which, due to their in­no­v­a­tive and non­con­formist na­ture, are com­mer­cially too risky – for ex­am­ple, the films of Christoph Schlin­gen­sief or Heinz Emigholz. The cor­po­rate de­sign func­tions sim­ply: a mono­chrome colour con­cept, type­writer-ty­pog­ra­phy and a strong cen­tral im­age.

Dur­ing the Berli­nale 2014 at the Berghain Kan­tine, the Film­ga­lerie 451 cel­e­brated the pre­mieres of four films: “The Airstrip” by Heinz Emigholz, “Three Stones for Jean Genet”, by Frieder Schlaich, “Every­thing that rises must con­verge” and “La Ul­tima Pec­ula”, by Raya Mar­tin and Mark Per­an­son. Moni­teurs de­signed a 16-page book­let as a per­sonal in­vi­ta­tion with pho­tog­ra­phy and graph­ics from the films, which was printed in lim­ited edi­tion on a Riso­graph. The Riso­graph prints with a par­tic­u­larly gen­tle sten­cil print­ing process in the style of screen print­ing, which makes it pos­si­ble to print with bright, beau­ti­ful colours.